If this is your first visit to the friendly ranching town in the Texas hill country, get ready to meet some unforgettable people. If you've been here before, you'll recognize old friends…and make some new ones.Welcome to Crystal Creek, TexasSomeone wants to buy his town… But Mayor Douglas Evans is not about to sell Crystal Creek, although he has to admit the town could use the money. In fact, some of the citizens seem more than willing to sell their homes and businesses to the very attractive Maggie Embree.Which puts Maggie in a difficult position. The woman she works for–the woman who raised Maggie and her brother–has very person reasons for wanting to buy Crystal Creek. Reasons she can't share with Maggie. So it looks like Maggie's going to have to choose between loyalty to the only mother she's ever known and the man she's beginning to love. And then the truth comes out…
Welcome to Crystal Creek, TexasIf this is your first visit to the friendly ranching town of Crystal Creek, deep in the Texas hill country, get ready to meet some unforgettable people. If you've been here before, you'll recognize old friends and make some new ones.Isabel Delgado has to fake her own death in order to get away from her vengeful husband. But when her plan goes awry, she finds herself stranded in Crystal Creek and in more danger than ever. Then rancher Dan Gibson has an idea–marry him. Dan needs help raising his three small kids, and Isabel needs a new identity.Perfect! Except Isabel's feeling for Dan–and his for her–could put them both in a different kind of danger.
Welcome to Crystal Creek, TexasIf this is your first visit to the friendly ranching town in the Texas hill country, get ready to meet some unforgettable people. If you've been here before, you'll recognize old friends…and make some new ones.The principals pregnant…Lucia Osborne knows that her condition–she's about to become a single mother–will have the townfolk of Crystal Creek gossiping. And some members of the school board will use her «mistake» to have her fired.Lucia is also aware that hiring cowboy Jim Whitley to teach the difficult seventh graders is going to get her into more trouble. But when she sees how the kids respond to Jim, Lucia knows he's the right man for the job. Could he also be the right man for her…and her child?
The best, plan of all…Alice Wynn has nothing to lose–and only fun and adventure to gain. So she agrees to impersonate her glamorous boss, Sharlayne Kenyon, who needs solitude to finish her scandalous memoirs.Jed Kilby is the bodyguard hired to protect Alice, since somebody out there will do anything to stop Sharlayne, and for the moment that's who Alice is.But Alice starts to fall in love with her unsuspecting bodyguard. And despite strict orders not to mix business and pleasure, he's falling for her, too….This is definitely not part of the original plan–but maybe it's the best part of all!
He needs to get married! Rand Taggart has been swindled out of a fortune but if he's happily married by his thirtieth birthday–coming up in just a couple of weeks–he'll inherit a second fortune. His great-grandpa's Texas ranch.She's ready to help him out! Maxine Rafferty's sister has been implicated in the swindle and insists Rand is at the bottom of it. Loyal Maxi figures the only way to clear her sister's name is to get the goods on Rand. When he proposes a brief marriage of convenience, she agrees. The closer she is to him, the easier to find out what she needs to know.Rand gains his inheritance, and Maxi, with Rand's help, lures the real swindler into a trap–leaving them free to pick up their lives where they left off.Except that Rand and Maxi can't seem to ditch each other as easily as they got hitched!
A mystery inheritance–with strings attached!Roslyn Baines can't believe what she's hearing. A great-aunt–someone she's never even heard of–has left her a large estate in rural Iowa on condition that she give up her career in Chicago for a year and live in the house. Otherwise, the alternate beneficiary–Jack Jensen–will inherit the place.Well, maybe he should. After all, he helped take care of it for years, while Roslyn didn't even know this side of her family existed; her grim-faced grandmother never discussed relatives. But Roslyn's curiosity draws her to Plainsville, Iowa, and once there, Roslyn–with help from Jack–uncovers the painful reasons behind her grandmother's silence.Now, also thanks to Jack, she's beginning to feel comfortable in the home of her ancestors. Trouble is, if she stays, Jack loses his inheritance. If she leaves, she may never see him again. And that's a risk she can't bear to take.
Who is the real Joanna Barnes?To Matt Sinclair, Joanna Barnes was the woman his father married six months after his mother died. Two years later, his father had been on the verge of divorcing Joanna when he'd suffered a heart attack. Most of his assets were gone–and several important papers were missing.To Kate Reilly, Joanna Barnes was the woman who'd befriended her one summer when she'd been an unhappy 11 year old. The woman who'd sent Kate a birthday card each year with a reminder that the two of them would meet on Kate's 30th birthday. A meeting Joanna doesn't make.Then Kate reads Joanna's obituary in the paper. The police are calling her death a suicide. Kate insists that Joanna would never have broken her promise. Matt's not so sure.But Kate and Matt put aside their differences as they uncover a world of intrigue, betrayal, and danger. Gradually the summer of Joanna becomes the summer of Kate and Matt….
FAMILY: YOU DON'T GET TO CHOOSE THEM!Darcy's mother and Sloan's father are in love and want to get married. But Darcy's sister is aghast and Sloan's aunt is appalled. That leaves Darcy and Sloan trying to make everyone see sense. No problem, right?But then their parents break up–thanks to a little help from the families–just when Darcy and Sloan are falling in love…. Compared to what these two go through, Romeo and Juliet had it easy!Don't miss this book by award-winning and bestselling author Bethany Campbell. It's guaranteed to be one of the funniest romances you'll read this year!
A secret marriagePhoebe Longquist and Lewis Hardin got married on impulse, without a fancy wedding, without family, without fuss. Phoebe wants to keep things quiet and uncomplicated…for a while, anyway.A family secretLewis would rather not deceive their families. But he'll do it if she really wants…for a while, anyway. He might be a Glory boy made good, but he's also an ex-con and hardly what Phoebe's parents have in mind for their daughter.A glory ChristmasThen Lewis learns something shocking about his own family, about who he is. And it makes him take stock of what he has.
They're definitely not two of a kind Have you seen this man?Ten-year-old Alex Harper is putting up posters everywhere. He wants to find his dad, but only so the judge can force the «deadbeat» to pay the support he owes. Maybe then his mother can stop working all the time, and she and Alex, his twin sister and little brother can finally take a real vacation together.To everyone's surprise, Alex actually finds his dad–or does he? The man calling himself Joe Smith certainly looks the part, but he claims there's been a mistake. And Frannie, Alex's mom, is willing to believe him. After all, he doesn't exactly actlike her ex-husband. Besides, it's said that everybody has a double somewhere. Of course, it's also said that twins run in families….